Mix-up means Stoke owners miss a rousing second-half fightback

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IT WAS perhaps just as well that Stoke City’s Icelandic owners missed the start of this game because goals by Jason de Vos and Fabian Wilnis, the Ipswich Town defenders, threatened to condemn Stoke to their fifteenth Championship defeat of the season.

The owners thought that the game was an evening kick-off and were still on their way to the ground when the visiting team powered into a 2-0 lead inside 20 minutes. Some had arrived by the time that Mamady Sidibe headed past Shane Supple in the 73rd minute to complete a rousing Stoke comeback, but those who failed